Has anyone ever heard the whole star wars story reffered to as the journal of the whills??
This is the prolouge from the original star wars book: 'Star Wars from the adventures of luke skywalker' Will episode 3 tie the whole thing together and will journal of the whills ever be mentioned?
Another galaxy, another time.
The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time. No need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that... it was the Republic.
Once, under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the Jedi Knights, the Republic throve and grew. But as often happens when wealth and power pass beyond the admirable and attain the awesome, then appear those evil ones who have greed to match.
So it was with the Republic at its height. Like the greatest of trees, able to withstand any external attack, the Republic rotted from within though the danger was not visible from outside.
Aided and abetted by restless, power-hungry individuals within the government, and the massive organs of commerce, the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic. He promised to reunite the disaffected among the people and to restore the remembered glory of the Republic.
Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears.
Having exterminated through treachery and deception the Jedi Knights, guardians of justice in the galaxy, the Imperial governors and bureaucrats prepared to institute a reign of terror among the disheartened worlds of the galaxy. Many used the imperial forces and the name of the increasingly isolated Emperor to further their own personal ambitions.
But a small number of systems rebelled at these new outrages. Declaring themselves opposed to the New Order they began the great battle to restore the Old Republic.
From the beginning they were vastly outnumbered by the systems held in thrall by the Emperor. In those first dark days it seemed certain the bright flame of resistance would be extinguished before it could cast the light of new truth across a galaxy of oppressed and beaten peoples...
From the First Saga Journal of the Whills
They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.
I think it was just one of those things that Lucas had envisioned that never really turned into anything...kind of his attempt at a Lord of the Rings type thing.
I mean, you can see the outline for the story, for the most part in the foreward...few things are really different. Like Palpatine ending up being controlled by those he controlled. That's never been part of the whole picture since the novelization was published. Pals runs the show, and no one questions his authority...and when they do, it's behind closed doors and eventually find out anyway.
However, I've always thought that a large graphic print hard back novelization of all six movies should be published and the title the journal of the whills. Maybe even when he's gotten old and can find the strength to write the last three episodes.
Kind of one big book, like the bibles that are used on the alters in Catholic churches.
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Last edited by Devil King on Aug 24th, 2004 at 05:22 PM
Here's what it says at the OS under Star Wars episode IV features entitlied "The Urban Legends Of Star Wars"
*Urban Legend: Long before Star Wars made it to the movie screen, the entire story existed as a series of novels entitled "The Journal of the Whills" which told the tales of Episodes I-VI and more.
*It would be the ultimate find: the rumored tome which contains the complete Star Wars saga. One rumor pegs it as a series of 12 books. Unfortunately, such books do not exist outside of wishful thinking. At the bottom of the Prologue to A New Hope's novelization is the tantalizing attribution: "From the First Saga, The Journal of the Whills." This cryptic citation has caused much confusion over the years. The Journal is not a massive tome with a maddeningly low print run that is eluding collectors. Rather, it is a fictitious work from which the Star Wars stories are culled. The storyline of the entire Star Wars saga has never been printed. It exists in the mind of George Lucas, and in his binders of notes and story treatments. "Originally, I was trying to have the story be told by somebody else; there was somebody watching this whole story and recording it, somebody probably wiser than the mortal players in the actual events," explains Lucas in Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays. "I eventually dropped this idea, and the concepts behind the Whills turned into the Force. But the Whills became part of this massive amount of notes, quotes, background information that I used for the scripts; the stories were actually taken from the Journal of the Whills." That said, though, there was one Star Wars book published before the 1977 release of the film, which may have helped keep this legend alive. The novelization of A New Hope - then called Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, came out a full six months early, in December of 1976. Now a collector's item, the novel features early Ralph McQuarrie artwork of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, and proudly states on its cover "soon to be a spectacular motion picture!" So though the novel was written based on the movie screenplay, it did come out first. This was a time when no one knew about Star Wars, and Lucasfilm had to do anything it could to spread the word about its soon-to-be revolutionary movie. Perhaps fans that saw the 1976 first printing dates began to speculate on there being other early books.
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